11 January 1937, King Zog I brings the bones of Nairn Frasheri in Homeland

Naim Frashëri

8 decades ago King Zog I, on January 11th, 1937, sent a commission in Istanbul to take back the bones of the national poet Naim Frashëri, supporting all the costs of this case, who since 1900 was rest in the graveyard of Merdinveqoi in Istanbul. The arrival of Naim Frasheri bones and his reburial in the Bektashi Tekke in suburb of Tirana was a great ceremony, attended by the highest personalities of the state and the people of the capital.

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